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Jeremiah 6:17

Jeremiah 6:17
Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Also I set watchmen over you,.... That is, prophets, as Jarchi; true prophets, as Kimchi; such an one was Ezekiel, Jer 3:17. The Targum interprets it teachers; such were the apostles and first…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Watchmen - The prophets Isa 52:8. The second of the trumpet - This was the signal for flight Jer 6:1; Amo 3:6. Similarly the prophet’s warning was to move men to escape from God’s judgments.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Jeremiah 6:9-17

The heads of this paragraph are the very same with those of the last; for precept must be upon precept and line upon line.

I. The ruin of Judah and Jerusalem is here threatened. We had before the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

I set " I ever raised up," Dr. See on Jer 6:6.

watchmen the prophets; so Eze 3:17; Eze 33:7.

the sound of the trumpet Cp. Jer 6:6; Amo 3:6.